{"id":172,"date":"2025-08-07T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:09:36","slug":"2m-fm-simplex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2m-fm-simplex\/","title":{"rendered":"2M FM Simplex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">2m FM simplex operation has many advantages for a newcomer to SOTA and can yield very satisfying results. Many 2M activators have stories about making contacts out 100+ miles and the excitement therein. With&nbsp;a little effort and planning you too can have your own&nbsp;story.<br><br><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">2m FM communication benefits from height and what better place than to be atop a peak. Given the typical range of 2m FM simplex communication is in the 50+ mile range your best activation will be near populated areas. Southern California is one such area where a 2m activation from many of the mountains ranges will potentially yield 15+ contacts within 15-30 minutes. Activating a remote peak in the Northern Coastal or White Mountain regions might well result in a lot of frustration.<\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">The advantages of 2m activation;<\/p><ul style=\"padding-left: 20px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\"><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Open to all licensed US amateur radio operators from technician up<\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Lowest cost of entry for an activator and\/or chaser<\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Compact and lightweight makes getting to the mountain peak that much easier<\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Many chasers have powerful and large home station ensuring its easier to communicate with you<\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Chasers have radios installed in their automobile<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">As many of you know your antenna can and will make all the difference in communicating far and wide. You will enjoy better\/easier success with something other than the \u201crubber ducky\u201d that came with a handheld 2m transceiver. An alternative antenna could be home brewed by you and friends or purchased. For many antenna experimentation&nbsp;is big part of amateur radio.<br><br><\/p><h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">Antenna Suggestions<\/h3><ul style=\"padding-left: 20px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(39, 38, 38); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\"><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">Consider&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start;\">Signal Stick&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/signalstuff.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/signalstuff.com\/shop\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754969686733000&amp;usg=AOvVaw18ih2H2Zrjk1EiOakzsL0X\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start;\">https:\/\/signalstuff.com\/shop\/<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start;\">&nbsp; (supports HamStudy.org)<\/span><\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start;\"><\/span>Search for Slim Jim J Pole on the Internet will yield options<\/li><li style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">http:\/\/www.arrowantennas.com\/sub\/arrowiiyagi.html<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}